Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People dont realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating. – Jack LaLanne
If youve got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. Youve got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet. – Jack LaLanne
You cant get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If youve got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? Its the fat! – Jack LaLanne
So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they dont get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity. – Jack LaLanne